Tips for Businesses

How to Determine and Prioritize Your Essential Services

Complete an Essential Service Ranking: This will help you to create a list of essential services by department. Then rate the degree to which it will negatively impact the various key areas such as financial, employees and customers.

Prioritize and Categorize: For each essential service, assign a rating (A, B or C). Rate the impact on each service such as staff absenteeism, unavailability of critical supplies, or disruptions to essential systems.

A) Essential services/functions.
B) Services that can be suspended for a short period of time.
C) Services that can be suspended for an extended period of time.